Beta-Blocking with D2

December 13, 2019Uncategorizedbeta blocker, d2, diablo2, ejgold, forgettingtrump, gorby, gorebagg, jal, reincarnation, trumpblockergorebagg

This idea for a Comedy Video Game could become an instant viral hit.

WIPE OUT TRUMPISM!

Yes, you can totally and completely wipe out any vestige of the existence of Trump simply by using Diablo 2 as a meditative field of concentration, mindfulness and effective iron-age combat skills plus a seriously developed sense of winning battle strategies.

I view D2 not only as a learning field and skill developing area but also a way of immersing yourself in another completely different world, a world in which Trump and Trumpians simply don’t exist, and if they did, they wouldn’t last long among the other dungeon monsters.

I make money from Trump. He feeds my comedy needs and keeps my blogs interesting, just because the guy is dangerous enough to get your full attention, like someone with their hands around your most delicate body-parts.

Let’s be perfectly clear here — I am not a “nevertrumper” — never heard of Trump before he was elected — nor am I a Trump-Hater, although it’s hard not to be, due to his incessant need to have his branded name in the news cycle every single day.

It’s reminiscent of the constant blaring of loudspeakers in countries which have fallen to dictators, talking constantly about their “Beloved Great Leader”, usually just another dumb shmuck with a talent for mass murder and some friends in high places, generally along the lines of some religious fanatics who feel the need to control everyone and make them all either be exactly like them, or push up daisies.

Generally, as is the case with wise-ass standup comics like myself, the case for daisies is easy to make. I have to have SOME frigging escape from the Mad King of Amerika, and D2 is my first choice.

I am highly skilled at very deep levels of meditation and mentation, but nothing works against Trump, Trumpies and Trumpism as well as Diablo 2.

Keep in mind that you’re battling the forces of Hell and that the demons are out there, more or less the entire GOP, and they’re busily swarming and devouring the wheat all over the world, and there are zombies and hate-filled vermin everywhere, and all you’ve got to stop them when you first get into the world of Diablo 2 is the equivalent of a fist-axe or a blunt instrument resembling a lead pipe. Continue reading →

Run Away, Hide!!!

December 2, 2019Uncategorizeddiablo2, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, meditation, reincarnation, repetition, retreatsgorebagg

The Ultimate Getaway, right into another time, another place. You can enjoy a leisurely tour through the Bardos, or you might prefer a run through Ancient Rome, or a boat ride down the Nile past ancient temples and rich royal palaces, all exactly as they were, back when YOU lived there and then. Continue reading →

Is THIS All There Is???

November 27, 2019Uncategorizeddiablo2, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, reincarnationgorebagg

What if “The Hokey-Pokey” is really what it’s all about, and we’re expected to put our right feet in and out thousands of times a day?

What if Peggy Lee’s song, “Is This All There Is?” really is all there is?

Actually, if those two prospects loom horridly ahead of you, take hope and inspiration. I can absolutely guarantee that neither of those idiotic things are The Actual Meaning of Life.

What if playing Diablo 2 is actually The Point of Life? What if that’s what is called “The Great Work”?

Well, it is. Continue reading →

Learning to Teleport

August 20, 2018Uncategorizedammy, back weapon, charges, d2, diablo2, ej gold, enigma, gorby, gorebagg, jal, reincarnation, ring, sorc, sorceress, tele, tele equipment, tele sword, teleport, teleportationgorebagg

Alien nude from my unpublished book, “Alien Portraits”

Often I’ll come up with an art series that has been inspired by Diablo 2, and the “Alien Portraits” portfolio is one of those ideas that never reached the public, but is sitting there, ready and waiting, for a publishing opportunity.

Sometimes it takes a while to get out there with a good idea. Meanwhile, I’ll be working on teleporting tonight.

It’s not that I forgot how to teleport or something — I’m trying to come up with a set of TRAINING DRILLS that will work here, and I think I have a few ideas that you’ll find very easy to implement, very effective to use and have a definite spillover effect in your daily life, which is all to the good.

See, the idea behind the TELE is the SWAY.

The idea is generally to use a series of gaming drills that help you find your “TELE-LEGS” — that’s professional “teleport talk” for achieving that gaming sway and swerve that makes you stand out as an excellent player.

But you want to develop your skills without pain and without injury, so you work within a situation where things are such that you don’t get swatted like a fly while trying to learn the aforementioned skills.

And what skills are they?

They are primarily skills of relaxing and moving without involvement in conflict, and that means skirting great mounds of howling enraged mobs of vicious unregistered and unlisted creatures ravenously biting at you from every direction.

Avoiding the Christmas Rush, you TELE in and TELE out.

Speaking of Christmas, we can use the BARDO SAFARI operations as a way of putting the “X” back in “Xmas”.

It’s all about the SWAY, and that comes with PRACTICE, and there isn’t any other way to get it — there is no mental substitute for PRACTICE.

Best way to get some practice in the TELE would be to find a gaming space that matches the general conditions of what it will be like in the area to which you think you might be teleporting, and duplicate that space, but do it in a quiet zone, no enemies about.

The very first thing you want to do is to TELE — teleport — where NOTHING can possibly happen to you, there are no enemies alive, and where there are no surprises. Continue reading →

Notes From My Desk

January 17, 2016Uncategorizedbirth, character, death, destruction, diablo2, ej gold, gemstones, gorby, gorebagg, habits, hardcore, ladder, life, missions, rebirth, reincarnation, respawn, runes, runewords, sessions, training, triad, upgradegorebagg

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For the past several weeks, I’ve been playing Diablo 2 for an average of 8-10 hours a day, broken up into two and sometimes three sessions, with breaks about every half hour to an hour, plenty of water to keep hydrated, lots of walking in between missions, listening to my favorite Press Keys, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck or Charles Lloyd album as I whip the Diablo levels into a total frenzy with my combination punch — traps plus fire bombs from my trapper assassin and ravens, wolves and blasts of arctic air from my elemental druid.

The point is, when in combat, don’t dawdle. Pour it on as fast and as heavy as you can, with great efficiency and fervor, then dodge the return fire and do it again until nothing moves and all is quiet on the Western Front. In short, rain down death and destruction like some Hindu Gods I could mention, then have a sip of tea and do it again.

Yes, death and destruction. If you’re going to get into the God Business, you can’t be squeamish about what happens when a universe runs down from Big Bang to Very Very Dark and Quiet. There’s a lot of death and destruction in the normal course of events. Hundreds of micro-organisms die every year, and you wouldn’t believe the statistics in the vegetable kingdom.

So I’m knocking about in various modes, a wide variety of character classes, an even wider spread of character levels from level 1 to level 61, my highest ranking char in hardcore in this most recent run of ladder characters, although I have dozens more in non-ladder, going all the way back to the very first year of Diablo 2, about fifteen years ago, by my admittedly shaky reckoning — maybe 20 years, could be, during the course of which I’ve put in several thousands of hours of experimental game play, with the idea in mind of developing a course of self-study and self-mastery that used gaming as a basis, and that’s what I’m presenting now. Continue reading →